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genious. thank you sir!

oops! wrong subforum, reposting in modding section.

Just worked out an eay way around an aquifer...

so, i embarked on an area with a massive river and a small waterfall from a brook running in to it. aquifer about 4 layers down ran for 3 layers or so. i decided i couldn't be arsed pumping water from successive layers as i dug so all i did was construct stairs down the side of the cliff the river ran under from the top where i embarked to the first rock layer. once there i used that one single point as an entrance to the fort. for farming, rather than irrigate i dug out from the fort to the cliff edge again and built stairs up to the dirt above the aquifer, where i promptly set up a massive plump helmet far. then, deciding i didn't want to worry about time consuming plumbing i dug a one tile hole in to the aquifer and placed a well.

i now love aquifers;
-secure entrance
-secure food
-secure water
-easy setup

any thoughts from the crowd? i'm thinking of using the aquifer to crack a second waterfall above the entrance for visual effect.

so i was thinking about implementing something along the lines of what spore does.

have the game present you with a list of buildings for a given culture, eg humans:

-1 bed house
-2bed house
-inn
-meeting hall

you select one of these buildings and the game brings up a screen with the current standard building of that type. from there you can modify the building as if you were building it in fortress mode, withing a standard footprint size area.

when you are happy with the design you save it either alongside or over the top of the standard template and the game then uses your new design in procedurally generated human towns. essentially you create your own library of building designs that the game uses to populate the world.

this would alleviate the problem of having very same-ish buildings accross the world, bare, lifeless looking fortresses made up basically of a hollow cube. you could even go so far as to have the designs saved to their own folder, allowing them to be made available in the same manner as the many and varied graphical tilesets we use.


what would everyone think of something like this??

i just hope toady see it and likes the idea.

Yeah, five angry dwarves should be able to deliver 200 punches/kicks, enough to subdue most creatures of flesh. I like to embark with 4-8 copper swords (28 coin each).
I hate the invulnerable_to_all_combat beasts, made of amber or metal, they are the movie monster The Blob. 3000 sword swings cannot stop them, only break all limbs. Always nice when a mindless demigod shows up just because you made 50 000 coin worth of weapons and mugs.

i thought you just quoted the title of that ben folds five song 'one angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces'. i nearly evacuated my bowels with laughter...

does anyone know where picks rate as weapons in 2010? i usually run a miners militia early game. wondering how efficient it is in this version.

can anyone tell me how to regenerate my world (if possible) so i can keep my save game? the reason being i can not assign nobles and i've been told that regenning the world is the only workaround.

wow you really did mean regen the world hey, just tried to reclaim with the same result. bummer.